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 460 THE TRIAL OP JEANNE DARC. " Pass on." " Did you see any angel above the king ? " " Spare me ; pass on. Before the king sent me to the field, he had many apparitions and beautiful revelations." " What revelations and apparitions did the king have ? " " I shall not tell you. This is not the time to answer you ; but send to the king ; he will tell you. The voice had promised me that as soon as I had reached the king, he would receive me. Those of my party knew well that the voice was sent me from God; they saw and knew that voice. I am certain of it. My king and several others have heard and seen the voices which came to me ; there was Charles de Bourbon and two or three others. No day passes in which I do not hear that voice, and I have much need of it. But never have I demanded of it any recompense except the salvation of my soul. The voice told me to remain at St. Denis, in France, and I wished to do so ; but against my will the lords made me set out thence. If I had not been wounded, I should not have gone. After having left St. Denis, I was wounded in the defences of Paris ; but I was cured in five days. It is true that I made a skirmish before Paris " " Was not that on a holy day ? " " I believe it was." " Was it well to make an assault on a holy day ? " To this she only replied by saying : " Pass on," and the questioning then ceased for the day. The next morning, for the first time, a full court was present, the presiding bishop and sixty-two abbe's, priors, and other priests. Little was extracted from her during this day's examination, although she made some spirited answers. Being asked if she knew that she was in a state of grace, she said, " If I am not, God put me in it ! if I am, God keep me in it ! " They asked her if the people of her village were not of the French party.